Amazon Education to Launch New Website for Open Education Resources - Market Brief - 0 views
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Feb. 14, 2016
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Amazon Education is working on a new platform that will allow schools to upload, manage, share, and discover open education resources from a home page that in some ways resembles the one shoppers are accustomed to accessing on the massive online retailer’s website.
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during a “Transitioning to OER” session Friday as part of the National Conference on Education of the AASA, the School Superintendents Association
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The new platform is in beta testing now, and is scheduled to be released publicly within the next two to three months
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Users of the site will be able to add ratings and reviews, and to receive recommendations based on their previous selections
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Educators will be able to curate open resources, self-publish material they have developed, and put a school’s entire digital library that is open and freely available online
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select categories to modify their searches for open resources, much the way shoppers on Amazon today can choose categories to filter their searches
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This piece we have committed to making absolutely free forever. We’re not going to lock the content up. We promised we won’t put a pay wall in front of it.
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how it will achieve financial sustainability for Amazon Inspire, he said it could be in connecting users to books they might want to buy
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a lesson one of his educators uploaded in testing requires certain materials like batteries and coils
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will be assigned metadata tags identified through the Learning Registry, a federally sponsored, online information-sharing network
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“All of these groups–Amazon, Microsoft, Edmodo–they’re publishing their platforms on top of the Learning Registry,”